Curse

tyche7 · May 07, 2007, 04:30 PM // 16:30

I have gotten greens in mishs. The first one that comes to mind is also from arborstone - I've gotten the mes staff there in the past. There are other mishs I've gotten greens from but I can't remember right off hand which those are at this moment.

ravensong · May 07, 2007, 04:34 PM // 16:34

My friend was farming one staff...and it dropped after 7 hours of farming this weekend... hmm

Pandora's box · May 07, 2007, 05:03 PM // 17:03

I can hardly remember the last green that dropped for me. I think it was in september 2006 in a 6 hero/hench party. I don't grind so maybe that's the reason. But I do slay some green wielding bosses every day. I understand greens are supposed to be rare, but not this rare!

Ouchie · May 07, 2007, 05:16 PM // 17:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nekretaal

There's also some "your drops are reduced if your playing for too many hours straight code" in Guild wars

Really? How many hours is it - This I actually did not know

tyche7 · May 07, 2007, 05:28 PM // 17:28

Maybe we should heed the warning:
"You've been playing for 2 hours. Please take a break"

(-:

In my attempts this weekend I would play for a few hours (3-4 hours) at a time then take a break for a few hours and repeat. So if that's still in effect that's entirely possible.

Hyper Cutter · May 07, 2007, 05:41 PM // 17:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by wynoski

I got River's Short bow in the Arborstone mission (not explorable)

I saw someone else get the mesmer boss's green in the same mission...

Ouchie · May 07, 2007, 05:52 PM // 17:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by tyche7

Maybe we should heed the warning:
"You've been playing for 2 hours. Please take a break"

(-:
.

I always thought there was a legal issue for the warnings (loss of eyesight or brain function in general liabilities)

2 hours seems a little low anyways especially in extra careful groups doing elite missions

Sir Skullcrasher · May 07, 2007, 07:35 PM // 19:35

Come to think of it, I haven't gotten a green since I got that green monk staff from Factions!

Alex the Great · May 07, 2007, 07:40 PM // 19:40

odd. i went 8 man capping and got 4 greens from 15 bosses

daggers of xueko on the way to another boss
ryvers short
thornbeards hornbow

and the charging strike guys maul

ElinoraNeSangre · May 07, 2007, 07:43 PM // 19:43

It's just hit and miss. I solo'd Shezel Slowreaper (in normal mode) something like 30 times this weekend before I got the green drop. :P

LONGA · May 07, 2007, 08:31 PM // 20:31

I got about 10 greens this week from running, capping skill.And there was a time time I got greens from 2 bosses in a row.
Too bad that those green ends up in the stroge ,nobody buy them.Gonna put those on heroes thou.

HawkofStorms · May 07, 2007, 09:30 PM // 21:30

Okay, let me clarify. Bosses that ONLY appear in missions don't drop greens. For example,
Ryver Mossplanter can drop his bow in the explorable or mission location of arborstone
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Ryver_Mossplanter
Stone Judge however, who only appears in arborstone mission, has no green to drop.
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Stone_Judge

wilebill · May 07, 2007, 11:17 PM // 23:17

All of my characters have greens in their bags, others are stored in my storage, many of my heroes have greens. But these all dropped for me quite some time ago. Last two months maybe, I have seen only one green I think.

Call it luck if you want, but at this rate I would not have as many as I do.

*Alexiel* · May 08, 2007, 01:13 AM // 01:13

I captured 80 or so elites too this weekend trying to further my survivor title, Hardly any of which were in Tyria at all, I mostly exploited Cantha and Nightfall. However, I didn't drop a single green =/ It did strike me as a bit odd, but at least I've only 237,000 xp to go now, if nothing else *groan* >.<

Spazzer · May 08, 2007, 01:54 AM // 01:54

When I got all 290 capturable elites in the game, I got 2 greens. :P

Bryant Again · May 08, 2007, 02:01 AM // 02:01

Actually, when my warrior would go on Elite skill hunts, I think 1/3 of all the bosses I killed dropped a green.

...Of course, these were some pretty crappy greens, like a lot of rit staves and a +15% while stanced hornbow.

At Spazzer: You're not the Spazz that was in AmW, were you? Or am I getting you confused with someone else???

roan_bladebearer · May 08, 2007, 02:11 AM // 02:11

It's most likely just a luck issue, because I've gotten six greens in the past week.

CrystalMeep · May 08, 2007, 06:50 AM // 06:50

I capped about 10 elites from this past weekend. The only green I got was from capping the ritualist in Nightfall (Bohdalz the Furious) and that was with heroes/henchies and dying a few times from the boss' spirit rift. Managed to kill him after I started flagging the heroes/hench further apart and making sure Jin targetted the boss to interrupt...

nevelo · May 08, 2007, 07:09 AM // 07:09

I think the only practical way to acquire greens is to farm them solo, or to buy them from others. Lets take a look at the chances. We'll use a somewhat good estimate based on community experience that a green has a 5% chance of loading on a boss. 1/20 * 1/8 in a full henchman party, gives you a grand total of 1/160 (0.6%) chance of a green dropping for you. Even if the chances were 10-15% it would still be pretty low; 1/80 (1.25%) or ~1/54 (1.85%) respectively.

I've been doing a little research on green droprate myself, and the numbers are just pitiful. This isn't the best sample pool, but it will give you an idea on how hard it is to get a green, even if you kill the boss solo or with 1 other person. These figures come from killing about 35 different bosses.

Bosses killed solo: 183
Greens dropped: 15

Bosses killed with 1 other person: 44
Greens dropped (for me): 1

So that gives us an 8.2% droprate for solo bosses and a 2.27% droprate for bosses killed by 2 players. If we used the first figure to project the likelihood of a drop with a full party of 8... the figure is little over 1%. So... out of 100 bosses you should only get 1 green dropped for you.

It might be better, or it might be worse then my figures. I'm not sure at this point, because I have a feeling there might some scaling issues with greens. It's hard to tell since my sample size is very small. However, I was getting a 15% drop rate (out of 65 runs) before scaling was implimented, and now I am getting only 3% (out of 120 runs).

This could be a result of scaling not being applied to greens properly (in which case you would have been more likely to green, likely ~1/50 probability), or that anet has globally lowered the drop % on greens, while at the same time exempting it from scaling. Which would, make your probability in a group even lower, maybe worse then 1/200...

Or it just could be a streak of good luck for the first set of figures, and a streak of badluck for the second... Which is probably the most likely. Either way, chaulk it up to luck.

JeniM · May 08, 2007, 07:30 AM // 07:30

Was this a glitch or did they change Greens so they drop WITH hench?
i had a new char so it only a noob isle bow but i got it with 3 henchies